Expense

Represents a business expense.

The Expense business object represents a business expense. It provides a central place to track vendor, category, date, amount, currency, status, and notes for each expense.

Description

Use the Expense object to record and manage business spending. It can connect each expense to a vendor, categorize the expense, track the amount and currency, record when it occurred, and monitor its status through approval and payment.

Included Fields

Expense

  • Expense ID
  • Expense Date
  • Category
  • Status
  • Amount
  • Currency

Vendor

  • Vendor Reference
  • Vendor Name

Other

  • Notes

Common Uses

  • Expense Tracking: Record business expenses in a centralized system.
  • Vendor Expenses: Associate expenses with the corresponding vendor.
  • Expense Categorization: Classify spending by business expense category.
  • Approval Tracking: Track expenses through pending, approved, rejected, processing, and paid statuses.
  • Financial Records: Maintain expense amounts, dates, currencies, and supporting notes.

Related Business Objects

Accounts

Procurement

Finance

Documents

Included Features

  • Automatic Expense ID generation
  • Expense status tracking
  • Expense category classification
  • Multiple currency support
  • Vendor reference
  • Vendor name lookup from the referenced Vendor
  • Expense date tracking
  • Rich text notes